twitter and facebook app in a modal div inside an iframe - facebook

I need to link the user's twitter and facebook profiles in a website profile while the website is loaded inside other websites' through iframe.
Is it possible to do that using a modal div inside that iframe? I'm quite in trouble thinking about the return url and page reload.
Have some example?
btw i'm using php but think it's not important now
Thanks,
A.

You can do what ever you want in your page even when it resides in an iframe. What you can do in it (visually) is only limited by the dimensions of the iframe (unless the hosting page has some kind of layer on top of your iframe).
I can't speak of the twitter way of doing things (you can always check their documentation) but with facebook it's pretty easy to integrate into the graph using the api.
You need to have a facebook app, and then in your page (even if it's in an iframe) you can use the javascript sdk to authenticate the user and then use the graph as you need (and have permissions to).

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If i understand correctly you want page admins to install your app into a tab on their page, and have different content displayed on that page tab depending on which page it is.
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